I'm glad that @dan is back. But I never liked that post, especially the Trojan Horse line:
A blogging platform that makes it possible for everyone to earn their way in is just a trojan horse. It is a means of hiding the vegetables (honest money) in the food (fun content).
Why did someone who isn't interested in blogging platforms, except as a means to another end, create two blogging platforms? I know why, it's a rhetorical question. It's such a convoluted scheme, like opening a flower stall across the road from the girl you have a crush on. This explains why we rely on PeakD for a decent interface, and why Voice's design sucks (haven't tried posting there yet, I just got my invitation this week).
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you may be on to something with this one :D
even current developers are not that much into the social part of it (seen by a lot of bugs in the blogging part of the platform 2-3 weeks after the hf). And i find that fascinating as it would be interested how many people joined and invested because all the non social network options of the blockchain.
The response over Voice, at least what I read since I have no first hand knowledge, does not appear to be positive.
A lot went into Voice but it appears that it is not taking off. For all that cash, it still seems that Hive is ahead of it (I could be wrong since I havent seen what goes on there).
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Yeah, it's not so easy to find users for a new social media network. Even Google+ failed. From a marketing point of view, I don't understand the target audience: how many people want both censorship resistance and a real-name policy with identity checks?
LOL I found steem after g+ died how ironic
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Yeah, it seems to me people detest KYC for exchanges but at least they can justify it.
But to go through that to post articles and comments, I think it is unappealing overall.
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From what I've read.. that was the intention. Built on the belief that blogging was going to blow up with rewards attached (attract mainstream). Thus the activity of steemit would then sustain SBD as the stablecoin which could then be used in those more ambitious projects like a marketplace.
It didn't take off though.
An elite circle of jerk masters developed and rewards were very selective. Then under Ned it became: pay to play/win.
@dan says he left because he was getting censored but that's not true. He only got censored because he kept promoting EOS after he had left. As if Ned had any authority over him. Ned never had a clue about anything. He depended on others and the reason those others got slack on furthering steem is because the leadership under Ned was garbage.
This chain is just too basic for big dreams.
No Trojan. A little ladder on the side of the wall in a siege that never really troubled mainstream is all.
As steemit and as Hive.
The future doesn't look any different.
A different Dan seeks to take this chain further. Directing an agro that really just wanted to keep h-e as is. So the solution of making h-e into SMT is looking to be a very low effort solution.
"No code" smart contacts the dream...